Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement.
Bill status
failed
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 4, 2024
Last action Jan 26, 2024
Floor votes
How they voted
No floor votes recorded yet.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
5
Key actions
2
Committee
2
Jan 24, 2024
Upper · Passed
Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
upper
Jan 12, 2024
Upper · Passed
Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
upper
1 primary · 13 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Yasmin Trudeau
DDemocratic
Co
Bob Hasegawa
DDemocratic
Co
Claire Wilson
DDemocratic
Co
Derek Stanford
DDemocratic
Co
Emily Randall
DDemocratic
Co
Joe Nguyen
DDemocratic
Co
June Robinson
DDemocratic
Co
Karen Keiser
DDemocratic
Co
Kevin Van De Wege
DDemocratic
Co
Liz Lovelett
DDemocratic
Co
Noel Frame
DDemocratic
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